To all the veteran heli pilots out there.

[TJ]

To those who flew in previous 'war' games, what do you think of the weaponry we have so far?
I know that adding multiple faf rockets to any heli would be too OP and would mess with destruction. (let alone vehicle balancing all of that...)
But i feel like the miniguns we have right now (both the littlebird and blackhawk) either don't do enough damage, or need a tiny amount of splash damage to be more effective. I'm not talking about destroying walls or cover, i am talking about hitting infantry.
Even with more than 1000 hours in the air in all BF titles combined and flying in any pvp game i can, Battlebit is the hardest game to hit infantry in. The littlebird feels a bit stiff on the yaw axis for me. And the miniguns on the blackhawk have been a pain in the butt to use too. Even at a very close range, it's hard to hit most infantry.
Before you say 'skill issue', i am not trying to hate on the game. I love every bit of it. (get it?)
I am just trying to find out if any decent pilots are having the same problem.
Maybe you have a fix for my problem, or tips? I'd love to know!

[nebjamni]

They are more drone than chopper the tip is to use mouse left and right for your yaw control.

[TJ]

yaw has never been on my mouse. i'm used to bf2 controls. Guess i could try it.

[nebjamni]

Originally posted by TJ:

yaw has never been on my mouse. i'm used to bf2 controls. Guess i could try it.

Me to, and i will not screw my piloting with that. They are not so fun, physics it's just mmmeeeyyy.

I want to flight a chopper i go ARMA 3.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

This doesn't add too much to the discussion, but I have many hours in Battlefield vehicles and I'm having a vehicle holiday right now for this title. The infantry play is fun and not so stressful.
I did see some good little bird gameplay that made me want to get sweaty in one again though. In that 1 minute video he did two sweeps of Wakistan with something like 8-10 kills. Inbetween sweeps he shot a solid 500 rounds that either did nothing or hit markers, but those two swoops paid off real good. Seems hit and miss, as you said. Splash damage would be good.

[mdre]

I think that the real issue with the little bird is that its too easy to get shot out of. But thats probably just because of 127 enemies shooting at you lol. I think the miniguns on the littlebird is pretty damn good against infantry. The best tip i have for you is to use the tracer of the minigun to aim, not the crosshair. But they definitely take more skill than BF4 littlebird, i was able to reguluarly go on 100+ killstreaks in BF4, ,my best so far in BB was 55-0 and it took a whole round of 127v127.

[Nethlem]

Tbh it feels like the helicopters are just in there to troll pilots.

The armed little bird feels like it's shooting cotton balls, had it happen more than once that I lost a "shooting duel" to some dude on ground with his AR.

Even tho I landed all hits with my dual miniguns yet his AR killed me faster, through a helicopter windshield. Had way more success using the little bird just for scouting/pinging enemy positions.

Same with the miniguns on the blackhawk, they feel quite weak like every enemy is a bullet sponge.

The lack of health regeneration also means that you have basically no sustainability, even if you have a medic with you in the chopper; Passenger medic can't reach the pilot to heal them, so the squishy pilot will always be the weakest link.

It's why most choppers just fall out of the sky due to dead pilot, instead of getting destroyed by taking actual damage.

[Quagimus Decimus]

No real vets I'm seeing here

You're all using these vehicles the wrong way.. you get close the ground and you provide taxi service. Those that don't pay get road killed.

[TJ]

Originally posted by Quagalicious:

No real vets I'm seeing here

You're all using these vehicles the wrong way.. you get close the ground and you provide taxi service. Those that don't pay get road killed.

nO rEaL vEtS hErE lol...
With the blackhawk i provide taxi yes, its literally a transport vehicle.
The littlebird has to be used somewhat medium range. It's not like i'm so close that i can see what weapon/class they have. And staying too far away results in a couple hitmarkers and then they move.

[Quagimus Decimus]

Originally posted by TJ:

Originally posted by Quagalicious:

No real vets I'm seeing here

You're all using these vehicles the wrong way.. you get close the ground and you provide taxi service. Those that don't pay get road killed.

nO rEaL vEtS hErE lol...
With the blackhawk i provide taxi yes, its literally a transport vehicle.
The littlebird has to be used somewhat medium range. It's not like i'm so close that i can see what weapon/class they have. And staying too far away results in a couple hitmarkers and then they move.

Gotta do it like we did in battlefield.. fast and low
so low you run em over.
Littlebird ain't so little.

[Nethlem]

Originally posted by Quagalicious:

No real vets I'm seeing here

You're all using these vehicles the wrong way.. you get close the ground and you provide taxi service. Those that don't pay get road killed.

The armed little bird has exactly one passenger seat, good truck trying to play taxi with that.

In Battlebit flying low is also a good reciepe to get shot out of the cockpit or eat an RPG.

In most other games it makes sense to stay low because homing AA is often widespread, so you want to stay low as much as possible as not to attract all the AA from the whole map.

Originally posted by Quagalicious:

Originally posted by TJ:

nO rEaL vEtS hErE lol...
With the blackhawk i provide taxi yes, its literally a transport vehicle.
The littlebird has to be used somewhat medium range. It's not like i'm so close that i can see what weapon/class they have. And staying too far away results in a couple hitmarkers and then they move.

Gotta do it like we did in battlefield.. fast and low
so low you run em over.
Littlebird ain't so little.

There are no roadkills with airvehicles in Battlebit.

[Resyled]

Originally posted by mdre:

I think that the real issue with the little bird is that its too easy to get shot out of. But thats probably just because of 127 enemies shooting at you lol. I think the miniguns on the littlebird is pretty damn good against infantry. The best tip i have for you is to use the tracer of the minigun to aim, not the crosshair. But they definitely take more skill than BF4 littlebird, i was able to reguluarly go on 100+ killstreaks in BF4, ,my best so far in BB was 55-0 and it took a whole round of 127v127.

the cockpit glass should protect you a LITTLE BIT so that only an actual sniper can 1 tap you, right now you can just get beamed out of the cockpit... also it's REALLY weird that the blackhawk can tank 50 20mm rounds but the glass is made of like... old bongs or something lmao

also in terms of the weapons, the miniguns do kinda suck, which is weird because the CROWs humvee and even the one with the turret can both kill someone super fast... also IRL these bullets often richochet all over the place, so in effect has a bit of "AOE" to its impact

I think making the glass tougher, the miniguns stronger (but give them heat limits) would make flying transport helicopters WAY more fun and rewarding. Also could probably give pilots more points/kills for gunner assists because no matter how good you fly you'll end up not gaining much.

[Resyled]

Originally posted by Quagalicious:

No real vets I'm seeing here

You're all using these vehicles the wrong way.. you get close the ground and you provide taxi service. Those that don't pay get road killed.

have you... like... tried doing this? have fun getting one-tapped by an RPG or just shot out of the door in 1 second

[FuzioN]

the bird should have a 8 rockets to use the miniguns on the big should have more splash.

the bird should be more of a hunting unit, of air and ground.